The official line today remains that the government's position has not changed.

But it surely will.

It would probably be as well to get on with it.

The Independent story also reports that Trident remains on track in Cabinet, not least because there are concerns over the impact on jobs. Of course, the primary argument for Trident renewal can not be as a Keynesian economic stimulus and job creation scheme. You could get a lot more jobs for £20 billion.

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Doesn't Blunkett have one of those side jobs as a consultant for a company which will benefit from ID cards or biometric Passports being implemented ?

In fact here is that storyhttp://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23390277-details/Blunkett+lands+job+with+an+ID+cards+company/article.do

I suspect his comments are more along the lines of making sure something gets implemented, and his "employers" benefit, rather than the obvious solution which is that neither ID cars nor bio passports are secure or required.

Don't understand the last point ? Think how valuable or trustworthy either cars or passports containing bio information will be WHEN (not if) someone works out how to crack the security and duplicate them. Then they become a path for ID theft and not ID verification.

It seems he is not too much above the idea of being paid for influence like those noble Lords.

Blunkett's proposals are a cosmetic change - nothing more. The vast and enormously intrusive databases on citizens' everyday lives will still be there. The kind of 'biometric passports' he wants will be ID cards literally in all but name.